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One of the most amazing label of the 60-70s era was FANIA, the legendary latin label from New York. The story of Fania is the story of Jerry Masucci and Johnny Pacheco, who defined the FANIA touch through from late 60s until late 70s.
To me, the best from FANIA label are the LATIN SOUL and BOOGALOO albums/tracks, and there are a lot! The list would be too long to mention here, but if you are not a record digger FANIA has recently re-issued a few killer compilations that will do the job for you.

my contribution to the revival/re-issue of the FANIA catalog is this great compilation "Our latin thing (vol.1 sampler)" that gather ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED straight from the vibrant 70s Spanish harlem.

Our latin thing (vol.1 sampler)
FANIA ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED

out of print
mp3 320kpbs - promotional use only
all FANIA re-issues available at
Dustygroove.com
Amazon.com
Juno.co.uk
and at all the best record dealers...

1. Bang Bang - Cuba, Joe
2. I Like It Like That - Rodriguez, Pete
3. Boogaloo Sabrosa - Santamaria, Monguito
4. Mercy Mercy Baby - Barretto, Ray
5. Subway Joe - Bataan, Joe
6. Hit The Bongo - Puente, Tito
7. Gotta Do My Number - Averne, Harvey
8. Willie Wopper - Colon, Willie
9. Consolacion - Roena, Roberto Y Su Apollo Sound
10. Change Had Better Come - Dimmond, Mark
11. Soul Makossa - Fania All Stars
12. Quimbara - Cruz, Celia & Johnny Pacheco

download here

I strongly recommend all FANIA re-issues, in particular their amazing compilations and mixes

these 3 "El barrio" compilations will hook you to boogaloo and latin soul for the rest of your days!

People : this Dj Format mix is just awesome. Dj Format is a Hip-Hop Dj, and he draws the best from the Boogaloo and latin beats here, the mixing of tracks give a superb perspective to the tracks, don't miss it !!!

Great mix, more salsa than the others in the same serie


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Sounds of the 70s compilation of the month

This compilation gathers tracks that, as always in my compilations, will try to convince you that the creative burst of the 70s has some times something to do with miracles.

GOD MADE US FUNKY !
an inspired election of 13 stirring grooves for the happy few

unmixed, 256kps - promotional use only - support out-of-print reissues

1	African Music Machine	Camel Time
2	Hampton Hawes	Pink Peaches
3	Letta Mbulu	Where Does It Lead
4	Charles Earland	I Was Made to Love Her
5	Foxy	People Fall in Love
6	Sheila Skipworth	Look what you´ve done to me
7	Pete And Louie	Evil Ways
8	El gran combo	combolu (mrB edit)
9	Ray Barretto	New York Soul
10	Modulo Quatro	Ao Cair da Tarde
11	Trio Samba	Mas que Nada
12	Avan samba	eu sou eu
13	Rosana	Alegria No Ar

ps : note the amazing cover of "Evil ways" in a boogaloo mode, blasting!!!


enjoy and shout your faith in the 70s !

MrB strongly recommends:
Feeling depressed? RUSH to your record dealer and get this AMAZING 2CD pack of true classics that will rock your world like no others, including hits and impossible to find remixed gems from their nine albums recorded at Warner Bros Records from 1973 - 1982.
In addition, the package includes a disc of Ashford & Simpson songs from that same era that have been recently remixed by some of dance music's current top remixers including Tom Moulton, Joey Claussell, Joey Negro and Dimitri From Paris.

Get the original CD sound for a few $, the quality of the recording is just blasting!

includes MrB top5 disco tracks ever :

Stay free
+ the great re-edit by Dimitri from Paris

Love Don't Make It Right
+ the splendid remix by Joe Negro.

NO DOWNLOAD
sorry guys i´m not the one who will harm such a great publishing initiative


Disc 1
1. Over And Over (12" Disco Mix)
2. Have You Ever Tried It
3. Everybody's Got To Give It Up
4. One More Try (12" Disco Mix)
5. Tried, Tested And Found True (12" Disco Mix)
6. Send It
7. Top Of The Stairs
8. Don't Cost You Nothing (12" Disco Mix)
9. It Seems To Hang On (12" Disco Mix)
10. Found A Cure (12" Disco Mix)
11. Nobody Knows (12" Disco Mix)
12. Love Don't Make It Right (12" Disco Mix)
13. Stay Free
14. Bourgié Bourgié

Disc 2
1. Found A Cure (A Tom Moulton Mix)
2. It Seems To Hang On (Tommy Musto Re-Touch)|
3. One More Try (Dimitri Re-Edit)
4. Bourgié Bourgié (Joe Claussell's Classic Remix)
5. Over And Over (Simphouse/M&M Mix)
6. Stay Free (Dim's The Missing Mix)
7. Love Don't Make It Right (Joey Negro Mix)
8. Tried, Tested And Found True (Simphouse/M&M Soulful Mix)
9.Stay Free (Dim's Club Mix)

Sounds of the 70s mix

RICH BLEND
70s best sound crops, carefully packed by mrB

Julie Driscoll Brian Auger	Season Of The Witch
Freda Payne	I get high (on your memory)
Baby Huey	Hard Times
Frequency	Loosen Up
Erasmo Carlos	E Proibido Fumar
Tito Rodriguez	Mi Guajira Si
Pete Rodriguez	Pete's Boogaloo
Sylvia Vrethammar	Blasvart Samba
Cortex	Maïlys
Manzel	It's Over Now
Webster Lewis	Song Of Joy
The Beginning Of The End	Pretty Girl
Willie Colón	MC2 (Theme Realidades)
Som Imaginário	Tema Dos Deuses (Milton Nascimento)
Elias Dia Kimuezo	Zum Zum
Sebastiao Tapajos	laberinto

In this selection I tried to pack a condensate of 70s blends, as a rich coffee or champagne would do. These sounds should excite your senses (and your 70s nostalgia), at least for the time of the listening.

Nessa seleçao experimentei condensar uma mistura de som 70s, como no cafe o no champagne. Estes soms deveriam exitar seus sentidos (e sua nostalgia dos 70s), ao minimo para a duraçao do disco.

enjoy, leave comments

Post-scriptum 1: due to volume variations between tracks, i recommend the use of the sound levelling feature in itunes.

Post-scriptum 2 : this compilation will celebrate soon the 100.000th visitor...
Big thanks for your support to keep the 70s alive

Don´t kill record dealers

Many music blog tend to abuse on the volume of music they post.

Well let me tell you that many record dealers selling out-of-print music in vinyl suffer a lot from that, and many are closing down already

Is it what we want? No. Professional record dealers are the one who keep alive the flow of out-of-print music on the market.

For that reason I inform you that Sounds of the 70s will reduce its posts to once a month.


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Let´s start this year well.
Here is a short compilation of some 70s tracks i selected, mostly from Brazil, USA and France.

Some tracks here are really outstanding, i hope you will share my standpoint. No blog recycling here, all is from my personal 70s vaults (as usual)



Sounds of the 70s
Made in the 70s - mrB picks of the golden age

1	Miguel Gustavo	cancao inutil da paz
2	Sebastiao Tapajos	sambaden
3	Caetano Veloso	Olha o Menino
4	Odell Brown & The Organ-izers	Mas Que Nada
5	Trio Ternura	Filhos De Zambi
6	Donny Hathaway	Valdez In The Country
7	Airto Fogo	satine dog
8	Claude Bolling	Fréquence Pop
9	Serge Gainsbourg	par hasard (edit)
10	The J.B.'s with James Brown	To My Brother
11	Tony Camillo's Bazuka	Walkin' Tall
12	Paulinho da Costa	Until the end of time
13	Truth	Touch me
14	Staple Singers	Uncloudy Day
15	Tappa Zuki	Freak

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ps 1: note the orginal "Until the end of time" that Joey Negro used in his own Sunburst band cover
ps 2 : note the super rare "Freak" by Tappa Zuki, as featured in the Disc ´o ´lypso Dimitri from Paris compilation.

Crisis?

In the 70s the main economic fear was inflation (Inflation, that eroded purchase power day by day, was a recurrent issue in 70s music by the way).

In 1979, Paul Volker was appointed chairman of the Federeal Reserve Bank (the FED) and reappointed in 1983 by the superbad Reagan.
Paul Volker broke inflation for the first time in US and world´s economy, through a strict monetary policy, leading to low interest rates too.

This could have been a great step forward for the people...

27 years later the question is : who benefited it?
Companies and their shareholders? or the people?
On the one hand companies have outrageously increased their profits (check the S&P 500 increase since 1981).
On the other hand the middle class is worlwide stuck and didn´t see it purchase power increase in real terms, despite low inflation.
With low inflation + deregulation the financial sphere could grow protected, and distribute credit like never before.

The same happened with globalisation and free trade. Initially a good idea, it just eventually served the interests of large corporations who used it as a way to delocate and at the same time blackmail the manpower they couldn´t get rid of in their territories.

Since demand is not driven by salaries anymore, credit took over as the only way to maintain demand and feed companies. Who pays : the people, again..

Enough said : companies and their shareholders have been the only winners since these post-70s economic big bangs that were meant to change the world

VOTE
(DEMOCRATS)

THINGS MUST CHANGE

POWER TO THE PEOPLE

Kenny dope ranks among the best 60s-70s deejay in the world right now. But even more : he manages to have access to original mastertapes of obscure funk labels. His label Kay-Dee is his showcase of re-edits of lost funk gemms, wisely redone from the original reels. Just great. Check his work on genius Manzel artwork too...

O Kenny Dope faz parte dos melhores Djs dos 60-70s hoje. Alem, ele tem accesso aos faixas originais (mastertapes) de obscuros joias funk. Seu label Kay-Dee presenta seu trabalho de re-edicao, so fantastico. Confiram seu trabalho con a obra do genio Manzel..

enjoy :

KAY DEE RECORDS
Phillip Right- keep her happy (Kenny Dope long edit)
Fire - You don´t know (Kenny Dope edit)
Fire - Deeper in love (Kenny Dope edit)

Great boogie from 1981 but with a real 70s sound (arranged by the disco king Patrick Adams), to start the year funkily.

The main ingredient, feat. Cuba Gooding
Save me / Party people

listen first to the track on the 70s radio (sidebar) !